Alamo Bowl

The Alamo Bowl is a bowl game held at the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas since 1993.

Originally, the Alamo Bowl was created to give a tie-in to the Southwest Conference, and their opponents would come from the Pac-10. Unfortunately, as part of the chaos which led to the SWC's breakup three years later, only two teams were bowl-eligible in 1993, and the Alamo was slated for the SWC's third choice. In the following two seasons, the SWC was able to meet its commitment, but by this time the bowl had already realized it needed to find another tie-in.

Beginning in 1996, the bowl began matching a Big Ten Conference team against the SWC's successor, the Big 12 Conference. That arrangement remained in place until 2010, when the Pac-10 returned in place of the Big Ten. During this time, the bowl's place in the Big 12 hierarchy has increased; the bowl used to receive the conference's fifth pick, but is now third in line behind the BCS (Fiesta Bowl, generally) and the Cotton Bowl.

Results

31 DEC 1993	California	37	Iowa	3
31 DEC 1994	Washington State	10	Baylor	3
28 DEC 1995	Texas A&M	22	Michigan	20
29 DEC 1996	Iowa	27	Texas Tech	0
30 DEC 1997	Purdue	33	Oklahoma State	20
29 DEC 1998	Purdue	37	Kansas State	34
28 DEC 1999	Penn State	24	Texas A&M	0
30 DEC 2000	Nebraska	66	Northwestern	17
29 DEC 2001	Iowa	19	Texas Tech	16
28 DEC 2002†	Wisconsin	31	Colorado	28
29 DEC 2003	Nebraska	17	Michigan State	3
29 DEC 2004	Ohio State	33	Oklahoma State	7
28 DEC 2005	Nebraska	32	Michigan	28
30 DEC 2006	Texas	26	Iowa	24
29 DEC 2007‡	Penn State	24	Texas A&M	17
29 DEC 2008†	Missouri	30	Northwestern	23
02 JAN 2010	Texas Tech	41	Michigan State	31
29 DEC 2010	Oklahoma State	36	Arizona	10
29 DEC 2011	Baylor	67	Washington	56
29 DEC 2012	Texas	31	Oregon State	27
30 DEC 2013	Oregon	30	Texas	7
02 JAN 2015	Cal-Los Angeles	40	Kansas State	35

† - denotes overtime